I don't know if I have posted these on this site before, but here are my personal study notes on the Law in the New Testament (with some OT context):
Leviticus:
* All the commandments must be kept [26:14-15; see also Numbers 15:39-40, Deut. 5:29-30]
Deuteronomy
* The Law cannot be added to or broken up (4:2 and 12:32) [meaning there is no "moral law, civil law, and ceremonial law", there is only "the Law" which is made up of 613 Commandments:
www.jewfaq.org/613.htm ]
* 42 verses in Deuteronomy indicate that Israel’s blessing depended on them keeping ALL the commandments perfectly:
www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=commandments&t=KJV#s=s_primary_5_1Matthew
* Under the Law, hatred or reviling is murder and lust is adultery (5:21-28)
* “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind” is part of the Law (22:36-37, Luke 10:26-27, Deuteronomy 6:5)
Acts
* The Jews did not keep the Law (7:51-53)
* The Law is a yoke that the Jews couldn’t carry. (Acts 15:10)
Romans
* The Law brings knowledge of sin but cannot justify. (3:20)
* The promise to Abraham was by faith, not the Law. (4:13-14)
* The Law brings wrath. (4:15)
* Sin is not counted when there is no Law (5:13)
* The Law increases sin. (5:20)
* Faith places one under grace, not under the Law. (6:14)
* Christians have become dead to the Law by the body of Christ. (7:1-4)
* When the Jews were seeking to be justified by the law, the sin aroused by it produced death (7:5).
* We have been delivered from the Law (7:6)
* The Law is holy but cannot make you holy. (7:7-12)
* The Law is not sin; but it shows is what sin is and arouses it in us (7:7)
* Apart from the Law sin was dead; but under the Law, sinful desire is produced (7:8)
* When there is no Law, there is life; when there is Law, sin revives and results in death [i.e., misery, “lack of real life…the power of doing right, of confidence in God and the hope of future blessedness” according to Thayer’s Greek Lexicon] (7:9)
* The Law is appointed for life but only brings death due to our sin. (7:10)
* The Law produces death, making one exceedingly sinful. (7:13)
* Attempting to be righteous by Law is equated with the flesh and the carnal mind; and is contrasted with the Spirit which is of faith in Christ’s imputed righteousness, which is received by that faith (8:1-13)
* The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made us free from the law of sin and death (8:2)
* The Law is weak through the flesh. (8:3)
* The Law is not fulfilled through the flesh; but through the Spirit (8:4)
* Those in the flesh [unbelievers] focus on the flesh [and by implication, attempt to be righteous by their own efforts] those in the Spirit [believers] focus on the Spirit [and are righteous through faith] (8:5)
* The flesh [and by implication, the attempt to be made righteous by the Law] is carnally minded, and results in death [i.e. misery]; but life and peace comes through faith [i.e. trusting in Christ] (8:6)
* The carnal mind is opposed to God, and cannot meet the high standards of the Law (8:7)
* Christians are not indebted to live according to the flesh [i.e. by the works of the Law] (8:12)
* Living according to the flesh’s work results in death (8:13)
[The concept illustrated in verses 1-13 is that an attempt to be righteous by the Law is an attempt to be made righteous by one’s own performance, is motivated by a mind centered on the flesh (1st birth, born from Adam) and it’s works in this world, doomed to fail, and only by the Spirit, given at the moment of faith in Christ’s finished work (2nd birth born of the Spirit), is one righteous; having joy and peace. See this article:
bible.org/seriespage/16-perf...l-romans-77-25 ]
*Israel attempted to establish their own righteousness through the Law; faith in Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness (10:1-4)
1 Corinthians
* The strength of sin is the Law (15:56)
2 Corinthians
* The Law written on stones (10 Commandments, i.e. “the moral law”) is a ministry of death. (3:7)
* Those commandments are a ministry of condemnation. (3:9)
* The Law has no glory at all in comparison with the New Covenant. (3:10)
* The Law is passing away. (3:11)
* Attempting to be righteous by the Law produced a veil over the hearts of the Jews that is taken away in Christ. (3:13-15)
Galatians
* Placing the burden of the Law onto people turns you away from God, and perverts the genuine Gospel into a false one; and Paul wishes that those who preach a perversion of the Gospel be accursed [disliked, scorned, spurned] (1:6-9)
* The Law does not justify (make one innocent). (2:16)
* Christians are dead to the Law (2:19)
* If righteousness came through the Law Christ died for no reason. (2:21)
* Going back to the Law is not believing the truth (3:1)
* Living according to the Law is attempting to be perfected through the flesh (3:2-3)
* The Law curses all who practice it and fail to do it perfectly. (3:10)
* The Law is not of faith (3:12) [see also Romans 14:23, “that which is not of faith is sin”; these verses imply that attempting to be righteous by works of the Law is sin]
* Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law (3:13)
* The Law had nothing to do with the promise of God to Abraham to be a father of the Seed of many people, i.e. Christ (3:18) [see Genesis 15:5]
* The Law functioned in God’s purpose as an Instructor from Moses to John the Baptist in order to preserve the Jews until Christ (3:16-23)
* The Law is not against the promise of the Savior; because if a law could give [eternal] life - which it can't - then the Law could make someone righteous before God [and Christ would be unnecessary]. (3:21)
* The Law was an instructor, to bring us to Christ, but after Christ, there is no longer an instructor (3:24-25)
* The Law (first covenant) gave birth to bondage. (4:24)
* We are not children of the Law (4:31)
* Do not be yoked by the bondage that is the Law (5:1)
* Following one part of the Law puts you in debt to follow the entire Law (5:3)
* Christ is of no effect to those who try to be saved by the Law (5:4)
[in 5:9, " A little leaven leavens the entire lump” – leaven represents the sin of pride, which infects the entire lump of dough when introduced - the implication of this analogy in this context is that inserting a requirement the Law to be justified is an act of pride which taints the Gospel]
Ephesians
* Christ has abolished the Law, making peace with God for us (2:15)
Philippians
* Paul associates the law to the flesh and considers what it gained him as “skybalon” which is a vulgar Greek word equivalent to “crap”. (3:4-8)
Colossians
* The Law was against us, and was erased at the Cross (2:14)
1 Timothy
* The Law is good if used correctly – but it's correct use is not for the righteous [believers] but for the unrighteous [nonbelievers] (1:8-9) [see also Matthew 5:21-28]
Hebrews
* The Law and Commandments were “fleshy” (7:16)
* The Law was weak and made nothing perfect. (7:18-19)
* The Law was faulty and needed a better Covenant (Hebrews 8:7-8)
* The Law is obsolete, old, and ready to vanish. (Hebrews 8:13)
* The rituals by the OT priests were done because the way into the holy place [i.e. Christ] wasn’t opened yet (9:8)
* The OT sacrifices could not help the conscience of the worshipper (9:9)
* The OT sacrifices were only imposed “until the time of reformation” [I.e., the Cross] (9:10)
* The Law is only a shadow of Christ and could never make someone perfect. (10:1)
James
* If you try to be righteous by the Law, and fail at one part, you are guilty of all of it (2:10) [see also Ezekiel 33:13]
1 John
* Sin is transgression of the Law (3:4) [Note: it thus stands to reason from this verse is that the phrase “turn from sin” used in a Gospel presentation as a perquisite tprerequisiter as a necessary result of, is a phrase that carries the implication that living according to the Law must be done for salvation – note also that this phrase is not the literal definition of the Greek word for “repent”, which is “metanoia”, and literally means “change of opinion”. God “repents” (metanoia) several times in older translations of the English Old Testament in Exo 32:12, Deu 32:36, Psa 90:13, Psa 110:4, Psa 135:14, Jer 4:28, Jer 18:8, Jer 26:3, Jer 26:13, Jer 42:10, and Eze 24:14., thus the English meaning of “repent” has likely changed]